Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.s3.1

c7.s3.1

Next to Gautama and Caraka, Asaṅga (around fourth century CE) discussed the concepts and categories of debate in a most elaborate way in his *Yogācārabhūmi* and *Abhidharmasamuccaya*. He used the term *hetuvidyā* for logic and defined it as "perception at hand by reason of careful consideration".⁶²